Poet, painter, sculptor Kohanevich — this was the legendary "Chernomorets Sea", which escaped from the USSR by sea, sailing more than 300 km to Turkey on an inflatable boat

the Information that after the disease died Oleg Sahanovich (1935-2017) has been published on page Camille chalaeva 24 Oct 2017. Artist, sculptor and poet was 82 years old.

a memorable episode in the biography of Kohanevich became known not least because of the bravura song, "the Glorification of Oleg Kohanevich" Henri volkonskogo and Alexei "Tail" Khvostenko:

I escaped captivity,

I wanted freedom

I swam the surface of the water,

I don't bash, don't Buzuk,

I am not an enemy and not a friend

And please do not fix my miseries.

it's about the fact that in the late 1960-х (1967-м, and other information, in 1965,-м) after a few failed, but not exposed to attempts of crossing the Soviet border to the West, Kohanevich managed truly adventurous and deadly idea. Night aboard the cruise ship "Russia" (on the way from Yalta to Novorossiysk), he and his accomplice threw a backpack with an inflatable boat and a small supply of provisions, in the open sea using pumps@-"frogs" we inflated the boat and the oars went in Turkey. The path length of over 300 km took the fugitives 9 days. How did — about this can be found in the autobiographical novel "Just impossible." Turkey seafarers are not issued, and soon the artist was allowed to emigrate to the United States, where he lived most of his life.

Oleg Shunevich was born in 1935 in the Ukrainian city of Tulchin. After the Kiev art school, he continued his studies at the Leningrad Academy of Arts. In the USSR, his artistic career did not develop. The decision in that whatever was to emigrate Mature from the artist for several years. "Three years have passed since the Academy, and I am still here. Soviet artist-абстракционист. The picture is sad. No prospects. Not that I sat idly by, but yet, everything on the-прежнему, and every year more difficult, — because, among other things, nature has given me a talent, and it's just too uncomfortable here, if you're ambitious and know work well. Just throw it all to hell!" — recalled Kohanevich in his novel.

In the US, the artist, whom nature endowed with remarkable strength, in the mid 1970-х worked as a loader, to be able to create. Kohanevich wrote poetry and was engaged in abstract painting and graphics. But his most recognizable signature genre was stress sculpture — "intense sculpture" or a sculpture of a hard metal.

unfortunately, the home of the artist his work is now very little known. Exhibitions in Russia was not, he, after the emigration did not come here. In the auction market sculpture and graphics by Oleg Shunevich also not yet been submitted. They are known more for American catalogues of exhibitions, photographs of his Studio and pictures from private collections.

the Fate of Oleg Kohanevich Chapter "Chernomorets Sea" in the book Valentine "Leftists".

Sources: samlib.ru forum.artinvestment.ru